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The haters-gonna-hate philosophy in Silicon Valley is starting to become a problem.

There's a lot of luck involved in making a startup, and startups can fail for any number of reasons that no data can predict. The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.



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> "trust your numbers and growth to give yourself confidence in the face of rejection"

I don't imagine the people that you're worried about this being dangerous for can always find comfort in their numbers and growth.


>The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.

This isn't what he said in the article though. It's more about knowing your audience and the VCs in this case not knowing.


>>The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.

That is dangerous to any naive person in the world in any area of work. Doing your best, means your boss will look at you like a threat that you might take their job, or some political cartel in a big company will treat you like a pawn who does all their work, while their yes men reap benefits.

Start ups are only a area of work where the heart burn is amplified because of a lot of work is done in a very short period of time.




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